Tax
Advisors and Tax Auditors Jokes
The tax advisor
had just read the story of Cinderella to his four-year-old daughter for
the first time. The little girl was fascinated by the story, especially
the part where the pumpkin turns into a golden coach. Suddenly she
piped up, "Daddy, when the pumpkin turned into a golden coach, would
that be classed as income or a long-term capital gain?"
The difference
between the short and long income tax forms is simple. If you use the
short form, the government gets your money. If you use the long form,
the tax advisor gets your money.
A couple of
weeks after hearing a sermon on Psalms 51:2-4 (knowing my own hidden
secrets) and Psalm 52:3-4 (lies and deceit), a man wrote the following
letter to the IRS:
"I have been
unable to sleep, knowing that I have cheated on my income tax. I
understated my taxable income, and have enclosed a check for $150.
If I still can't sleep, I will send the rest."
What is the
difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion? The jail walls.
What's the
difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector?
The taxidermist only takes the skin.
Why won't
sharks attack tax inspectors? Professional courtesy.
"How
have you managed to buy such a luxurious villa while your income is so
low?" asked the IRS auditor.
"Well," the taxpayer answered, "while fishing last summer I have caught
a large golden fish. When I took it off the hook, the fish opened his
mouth and said, 'I am a magical fish. Throw me back to the sea and I'll
give you the most luxurious villa you have ever seen' . I threw the
fish back to the sea, and got the villa."
"How can you prove such an unbelievable story?"
"Well, you can see the villa, can't you?"
For every tax
problem there is a solution which is straightforward, uncomplicated and
wrong.
How do you know
you've met a good tax accountant?
He has a loophole named after him.
A nervous
taxpayer was unhappily conversing with the IRS auditor who had come to
review his records. At one point the auditor exclaimed, "We feel it is
a great privilege to be allowed to live and work in the USA. As a
citizen you have an obligation to pay taxes, and we expect you to
eagerly pay them with a smile."
"Thank
God," returned the taxpayer. "I thought you were going to want cash."
The kid had
swallowed a coin and it got stuck in his throat, and so his mother ran
out in the street yelling for help. A man passing by took the boy by
his shoulders and hit him with a few strong strokes on the back, and so
he coughed the coin out.
"I don't know how to thank you, doc...", his mother started.
"I'm not a doctor", the man replied, "I'm from the IRS".
The local bar
was so sure that its bartender was the strongest man around that they
offered a standing $1000 bet: The bartender would squeeze a lemon until
all the juice ran into a glass, and hand the lemon to a patron. Anyone
who could squeeze one more drop of juice out would win the money. Many
people had tried over time but nobody could do it.
One day this scrawny little man came into the bar, wearing thick
glasses and a polyester suit, and said in a tiny squeaky voice " I'd
like to try the bet."
After the laughter had died down, the bartender said OK, grabbed a
lemon, and squeezed away. Then he handed the wrinkled remains
of the rind to the little man. The crowd's laughter turned to total
silence as the man clenched his fist around the lemon and six drops
fell into the glass.
As the crowd cheered, the bartender paid the $1000, and asked the
little man "What do you do for a living? Are you a
lumberjack, a weight-lifter, or what?"
The man replied, "I work for the IRS."
Psychiatrist to
Internal Revenue agent on couch: "Nonsense! No way does everyone in the
world hate you -- everyone in the US perhaps, but certainly not
everyone in the world."
A man, about to
enter hospital, saw two white coated doctors searching through the
flower beds. "Excuse me," he said, "have you lost something?"
"No," replied one of the doctors. "We're doing a heart transplant for
an income-tax inspector and want to find a suitable stone."
The trouble
with the profession of income-tax inspectors is that 90% of its members
give the rest a bad name.
A taxpayer is
someone who works for the federal government but who doesn't have to
take a civil service examination.
Ronald Reagan
All the big
corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided
you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to
the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct
the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court
Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: "Where
else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?"
Dave Barry,
"Sweating Out Taxes"
A fine is a tax
for doing something wrong.
A tax is a fine for doing something right.
Where there's a
will, there's an Inheritance Tax.
A visitor from
Holland was chatting with his American friend and was jokingly
explaining about the red, white and blue in the Netherlands flag. "Our
flag symbolizes our taxes," he said. "We get red when we talk about
them, white when we get our tax bill, and blue after we pay them."
"That's
the same with us," the American said, "only we see stars, too."
Only the little
people pay taxes.
Leona
Helmsley, hotel owner and prison inmate, 1989
Tony died and
was sent to be judged. He was told that he had cheated on his income
taxes, and that the only way he could get into heaven would be to sleep
with a stupid, butt-ugly woman for the next five years and enjoy it.
Tony decided that this was a small price to pay for an eternity in
heaven. So off he went with this woman, pretending to be happy.
As he was
walking along, he saw his friend Carlos up ahead. Carlos was with an
even uglier woman than he was with. When he approached Carlos he asked
him what was going on, and Carlos replied "I cheated on my income taxes
and scammed the government out of a lot of money." They both shook
their heads in understanding and figured that as long as they have to
be with these women, they might as well hang out together to help pass
the time.
Now Tony,
Carlos, and their two beastly women were walking along, minding their
own business when Tony and Carlos saw their friend Jon up ahead, with
an absolutely drop dead gorgeous super model. Stunned, Tony and Carlos
asked Jon how is he with this unbelievable goddess, while they were
stuck with these awful women. Jon replied "I have no idea, and I'm
definitely not complaining. This has been absolutely the best time of
my life. There is only one thing that I can't seem to understand. After
everytime we have sex, she rolls over and murmurs to herself, 'Damn
income taxes!'"
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